director: Jose Nepomuceno
year: 1927
country: Philippines
alternative titles: The Viscera Sucker, The Viscera Sucking Witch, The Witches

A horror movie about "Ang Manananggal", a flying-head vampiric creature that originates in Filippino folklore tales. It shares characteristics with other South East Asian ghosts, namely Thailand's "phii Krasue", Cambodia's "Nieng Arb", and Malaysia's "Penanggalan".
"Ang Manananggal" appears to be the very first horror movie in Tagalog language (intertitles, as it was most probably a silent picture).

Cast:
Mary Walter

Company:
Malayan Movies

Format:
35 mm
black and white
silent (?)

Source notes
Andreas Huber, 07.01.2010

Comment about the film, provided by the very useful website "Video 48":

“Even with the crudest equipment, Nepomuceno was able to conjure camera tricks. In one scene where Mary Walter, in the title role, and her fellow manananggals appeared to be half-bodied before a coffin. Don Jose had a portion of the ground excavated. The actors and actresses who portrayed manananggals, therefore, were filmed buried up to the waistline. Subsequent editing made them appear limbless to terrified moviegoers…” (Jose Quirino)
Source: A Movie Album Quizbook by Jessie B. Garcia